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Calling cards are an indispensable accessory in the information age where communication is of primary importance for professional survival. However, the worst side of using a calling card is that the frauds are also aware of the importance of these cards and are making a wrong use of them to serve their own selfish purposes. The theft of these communication cards has thus increased by great proportions today.
Many of the travelers are aware of the safety of their credit cards and other types of cards related to monetary transactions but they are not very much concerned about the safety of their international calling cards. It is because they are unaware about the value of these cards and realize their faults only when the card is actually lost. You should not be a victim of this type of fraud activities.
The criminals steal the prepaid calling cards and run illegal “call-sell” operations. In this type of organized criminal activities, the frauds mainly sell domestic and international telephone calls illegally to the public in lieu of a certain amount of money as call rate. The common people are attracted to this type of services, as they demand less amount of money as compared to other registered services.
Besides causing a huge amount of monetary losses, the unscrupulous people cause unwanted inconvenience to the legitimate users. All the telephone companies are eager to minimize the losses by deactivating those codes that are reported as stolen and used illegally. They are eager to save their skin by immediately deactivating and tracing all the frauds that are reported to them. Thus, as soon as a person loses his calling card s/he should report the matter to the concerned calling card company as soon as possible.
You must remember that these frauds do not necessarily have to steal your card. If they only come to know of your card's 14-digit authorization code, they are able to use it illegally without any hindrance. Although they never lose the possession of the card, the call-sell operators and frauds observe them, because the common people use the numbers at the public payphones. Many a times, the users are not aware about the type of card connection they are using at the public payphones and the frauds take advantage of this in making a lot of money from the stolen calling cards.
If you plan to travel abroad, make sure that you take your calling cards along with your other cards so that they are safe and secure from any potential instance of treachery. Always try to keep away suspicious characters from your calling card and other cards that are extensively personal to you and cannot be shared with others. Remember reporting the matter as soon as you lose your calling cards both to the police and to the concerned company. You are sure to get relieved if the organized fraud circuit is handcuffed and taken behind the bars so that any further theft of calling card is avoided.